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04 Feb 2009
Global temperature estimates in the troposphere and stratosphere: a validation study of COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 measurements
P. Kishore
Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
S. P. Namboothiri
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
J. H. Jiang
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
V. Sivakumar
National Laser Centre, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa
Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
K. Igarashi
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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